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Current Organisations
University of South Australia
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Flinders University
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University of Adelaide
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Queensland University of Technology
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Research Topics
In Research Link Australia (RLA), "Research Topics" refer to ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes. These topics are either sourced from ANZSRC FOR and SEO codes listed in researchers' related grants or generated by a large language model (LLM) based on their publications.
Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Environment And Resource Economics | Natural Resource Management | Economic History | Applied Economics | International Economics And International Finance | Historical Studies | History and Theory of the Built Environment (excl. Architecture) | Environmental Science and Management | Mortality | Economic History | Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Political Economy | Sociology | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment | Social Change |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Land and water management | Microeconomic issues not elsewhere classified | Demography | The distribution of wealth | International trade issues not elsewhere classified | Understanding Australia's Past | Environmental and resource evaluation not elsewhere classified | Trade policy | Work not elsewhere classified | Evaluation of Health Outcomes | Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology
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Publications
Colonial Sisters and their Wealth: The Wealth Holdings of Women in South Australia, 1875-1915
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 28-04-2011
Personal Wealth in South Australia
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Date: 07-2001
DOI: 10.1162/00221950152103900
Abstract: Probate and succession-duty records are a rich source of information about the living standards and material wealth of past communities. According to these records, the small, mainly rural, and comparatively egalitarian population of South Australia held a erse array of personal assets at the beginning of the twentieth century. Despite the strong British influence on the former colony's culture, however, South Australia's distribution of wealth before World War I was more similar to that of the United States fifty years earlier than to that of contemporary Great Britain.
Erratum to The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia by Wheeler et al. [Agric. Water Manage. 97, (2010), 1333-1343]
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1970
Labour Market Evolution: The Economic History of Market Integration, Wage Flexibility and the Employment Relation.
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 08-1995
DOI: 10.2307/2598214
Information as the latest site of conflict in the ongoing contests about access to and sharing the benefits from exploiting genetic resources
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 19-02-2020
Abstract: The global movement and use of genetic resources remain vital to sustaining humankind. An enclosure or re-appropriation of these resources requiring regulated access and benefit sharing is evolving under the United Nations' Convention on Biological Diversity and related instruments. The potential to replace the physical materials with information about those materials, including genetic sequence data, has fractured the carefully negotiated benefit sharing regulation complex. This article re-engages with this original grand bargain of access in exchange for benefit sharing, and the imperatives of transferring financial resources and technology from the technologically advanced countries of the North to the bio ersity-rich countries of the South. Public access database terms and conditions (as opposed to public domain) and collecting societies are some of the elegant legal solutions and mechanisms to address concerns about dematerialization under the current contractual approach to benefit sharing. This article concludes, however, that the tension between enclosure of information as the genetic resource and legal information sharing requirements needs more nuanced forms of benefit sharing such as taxes or levies. This is necessary to facilitate movement of not only the physical materials but also information in the access and benefit sharing bargain.
THE CURRENT AND FUTURE ROLE OF AEHR: EDITORIAL REFLECTIONS
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2004
An historical account of cartel enforcement
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 21-03-2023
Students' conceptions of research. I: A qualitative and quantitative analysis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2005
Can economics assist the transition to a circular economy?
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 30-08-2018
Cities in a sunburnt country: water and the making of urban Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 19-05-2022
Abstract: As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water and water infrastructure in Australia's five largest cities. Drawing on environmental, urban, and economic history, this co-authored book challenges widely held assumptions, both in Australia and around the world, about water management, consumption, and sustainability. From the 'living water' of Aboriginal cultures to the rise of networked water infrastructure, the book invites us to take a long view of how water has shaped our cities, and how urban water systems and cultures might weather a warming world.
Cartel resilience in Australian markets 1901-1967
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2013
Shared genetic risk between eating disorder‐ and substance‐use‐related phenotypes: Evidence from genome‐wide association studies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-02-2020
DOI: 10.1111/ADB.12880
A review of access and benefit‐sharing measures and literature in key aquaculture‐producing countries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-01-2021
DOI: 10.1111/RAQ.12532
Abstract: Countries increasingly use access and benefit‐sharing laws as a tool for the conservation and sustainable use of biological resources and associated traditional knowledge. These laws generally require the recipient of resources/knowledge to obtain the provider country’s prior informed consent before collection, use or transfer and to share the benefits from their use with the provider. The aim of this literature review is to comprehensively analyse access and benefit‐sharing laws and literature about the top five aquaculture‐producing countries – China, India, Indonesia, Viet Nam and Bangladesh – to identify research trends and gaps in relation to accessing and sharing the benefits of aquaculture genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge. Using a systematic quantitative literature review methodology, we found only 5% of the literature examined the implications of access and benefit‐sharing for aquaculture and these only related to publications about India’s arrangements. While the other countries had literature about their legal measures and literature about informal genetic resource sharing practices in aquaculture, none of them connected the two research topics. None of the countries had literature analysing the implications of access and benefit‐sharing in relation to traditional knowledge associated with aquaculture. We conclude that given these are the top global producers accounting for up to 80% of all aquaculture products, urgent research is needed to fill the literature gaps to assess whether access and benefit‐sharing as a legal olicy tool is achieving conservation and sustainable use goals for aquaculture genetic resources.
Counting the cost:
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2001
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-2134(01)00225-3
Abstract: The principal objective of this paper is to identify the economic costs and benefits of pedophile treatment programs incorporating both the tangible and intangible cost of sexual abuse to victims. Cost estimates of cognitive behavioral therapy programs in Australian prisons are compared against the tangible and intangible costs to victims of being sexually abused. Estimates are prepared that take into account a number of problematic issues. These include the range of possible reci ism rates for treatment programs the uncertainty surrounding the number of child sexual molestation offences committed by reci ists and the methodological problems associated with estimating the intangible costs of sexual abuse on victims. Despite the variation in parameter estimates that impact on the cost-benefit analysis of pedophile treatment programs, it is found that potential range of economic costs from child sexual abuse are substantial and the economic benefits to be derived from appropriate and effective treatment programs are high. Based on a reasonable set of parameter estimates, in-prison, cognitive therapy treatment programs for pedophiles are likely to be of net benefit to society. Despite this, a critical area of future research must include further methodological developments in estimating the quantitative impact of child sexual abuse in the community.
Singing from the same hymn sheet: are the chair and CEO 'on the same page' in their annual letters to shareholders?
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-02-2023
DOI: 10.1108/CCIJ-05-2022-0049
Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore whether the level of language content matching (LCM) between the chair and the CEO varies with their firm's financial performance. This study examines a s le of 119 Australian firms and 476 annual letters to shareholders produced by the firms' chairs and CEOs over a four-year period. Chair–CEO LCM is measured by calculating the similarity score between the chair's and CEO's written text to shareholders within each firm year, while firm profitability is measured by return on assets. Univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests as well as three multivariate linear models are used to examine the research question. The results show that the profitability of the firm is significantly associated with the level of chair–CEO LCM. When a firm is profitable, there is a lower level of chair–CEO LCM than when the firm is unprofitable and that profitability is related to a lower level of chair–CEO LCM. Firm size is positively and significantly related to the level of chair–CEO LCM. These findings are supportive of the view that the written communications of the chair and CEO are the outcome of strategic considerations and depend on a firm's specific economic situation. Future studies may consider alternative approaches to measure textual similarity. LCM may provide insights into management techniques that may be used to explain firm performance and provide a signal to external stakeholders, such as shareholders and fund managers. This study provides new insights into the letters written by the chair and the CEO to explain or justify their firm's financial performance. Rather than focus on a single letter, this study examines the level of LCM between the shareholder letters of two different people in a firm (the chair and CEO) and finds that the extent of chair–CEO LCM is varying with firm performance and size. The findings of this study suggest that LCM is an important dimension of the communications of a firm's chair and CEO.
The future of information under the CBD, Nagoya Protocol, Plant Treaty, and PIP Framework
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-03-2019
DOI: 10.1111/JWIP.12118
Adaptive or Aspirational? Governance of Diffuse Water Pollution Affecting Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-03-2018
Regulating competition: Cartel registers in the twentieth-century world
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2015
International cartels in the real world: business, politics and diplomacy
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2022
“Look on the bright side”: CEO optimism and firms' market valuation
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-02-2021
Abstract: Previous research suggests that a CEO’s attitude can impact a firm’s performance. More particularly, there appears to be a link between the CEO’s revealed level of optimism and firm’s market value. The purpose of this paper is to measure the level of optimism revealed by Australian CEOs in their shareholder letters and compares this with their firms’ current and future valuations. This study assesses the CEO’s level of optimism using text analysis of the annual letters to shareholders in 180 Australian-based firms from 2010 to 2013. The market valuation of their companies over the same period is calculated using Tobin’s Q, and the results compared with the level of CEO optimism. Comparing the level of revealed optimism with their firms’ valuations over four years, CEO optimism is positively correlated, both currently and prospectively with firm valuation. Given the period under study immediately followed the global financial crisis (GFC), the results suggest CEO optimism may be an important factor in adding to firm’s market resilience. The study examines the link between revealed CEO optimism and firm valuation over a turbulent period of the business cycle. While the s le period follows the GFC, and Tobin’s Q has some known deficiencies, the results imply that further research should be undertaken to examine the importance of CEOs tone and communicated attitudes on their firms’ financial outcomes. The link between CEO optimism and the firm’s valuation suggest that shareholders and boards should pay particular attention to the values, cognitions and psychological and demographic characteristics of top executives when selecting CEOs. In particular, the results suggest that given two otherwise similar CEOs the one whose record of communication is optimistic should be preferred over a similarly qualified but less sanguine in idual. The paper represents the first study demonstrating the link between CEO’s communicated optimism and Australian firms’ valuations. The study uses three different measures of optimism to improve the robustness of its conclusions, and a comprehensive measure of firm value – Tobin’s Q. It is the first to quantify the association between CEO optimism and firm value shortly after a period of financial upheaval (the GFC). The findings indicate that CEO optimism contributes significantly to firm value. The study also tests whether “excessive” optimism negatively impacts firm performance and conclude there is no evidence of this in the s le period. The study suggests that more research should be done to examine the contribution of positive business attitudes to periods of economic stress.
Creating the secret register: The background to the register of trade agreements in Australia, 1967-1974
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.3917/EH.076.0072
Following zahka: Using nobel prize winners speeches and ideas to teach economics
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2012
Anti-cartel or anti-foreign? Australian attitudes to anti-competitive behaviour before the first world war
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-11-2010
Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-09-2006
Did good institutions produce good tariffs? Evidence from tariff protection in colonial victoria
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2012
From Protection to Competition: The Politics of Trade Practices Reform in Australia and the Trade Practices Act 1965
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2012
The contribution of wheat to Australian agriculture from 1861 to 1939
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/AEHR.12102
Beyond the market: broader perspectives in cartel research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2020
The economics of climate change: the Stern and Garnaut reports and their implications for business
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 31-01-2013
A Student Learning Inventory for Economics Based on the Students' Experience of Learning: A Preliminary Study
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2001
Australian Labour Market Institutions Through Time: A Perspective from the New Institutional Economics
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1999
Perspectives on Teaching Economics from Around the Globe
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-2005
Transancestral GWAS of alcohol dependence reveals common genetic underpinnings with psychiatric disorders
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-11-2018
Labor Market Outcomes in Settler Economies between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for Differences in Labor Hours and Occupations
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 2013
The association between farm management strategies and irrigators' farm profits over time in the Murray-Darling Basin
Publisher: WIT Press
Date: 11-12-2012
DOI: 10.2495/SI120391
The changing profile of water traders in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
A History of Business Cartels
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2022
Serious cartel conduct, criminalisation and evidentiary standards: Lessons from the Coal Vend case of 1911 in Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2009
The economics of child sex-offender rehabilitation programs: Beyond Prentky & Burgess.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.1111/J.1939-0025.2001.TB04450.X
Abstract: In a 1990 article in this journal, Prentky and Burgess examined cost-effectiveness of the rehabilitation of child molesters. Their estimates were based on the tangible costs of incarceration and particular reci ism rates. This paper extends those findings by estimating the intangible costs of child sexual abuse and a range of reci ism rates. The result is to focus greater attention on the efficacy of treatment programs and the potential economic damage done to children by child molesters.
Genome-wide polygenic scores for age at onset of alcohol dependence and association with alcohol-related measures
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-03-2016
DOI: 10.1038/TP.2016.27
Abstract: Age at onset of alcohol dependence (AO-AD) is a defining feature of multiple drinking typologies. AO-AD is heritable and likely shares genetic liability with other aspects of alcohol consumption. We examine whether polygenic variation in AO-AD, based on a genome-wide association study (GWAS), was associated with AO-AD and other aspects of alcohol consumption in two independent s les. Genetic risk scores (GRS) were created based on AO-AD GWAS results from a discovery s le of 1788 regular drinkers from extended pedigrees from the Collaborative Study of the Genetics of Alcoholism (COGA). GRS were used to predict AO-AD, AD and Alcohol dependence symptom count (AD-SX), age at onset of intoxication (AO-I), as well as maxdrinks in regular drinking participants from two independent s les—the Study of Addictions: Genes and Environment (SAGE n= 2336) and an Australian s le (OZ-ALC n= 5816). GRS for AO-AD from COGA explained a modest but significant proportion of the variance in all alcohol-related phenotypes in SAGE. Despite including effect sizes associated with large numbers of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs 000), GRS explained, at most, 0.7% of the variance in these alcohol measures in this independent s le. In OZ-ALC, significant but even more modest associations were noted with variance estimates ranging from 0.03 to 0.16%. In conclusion, there is modest evidence that genetic variation in AO-AD is associated with liability to other aspects of alcohol involvement.
Tracing the crimson thread: United Kingdom residents holding probated South Australian assets, 1905-1915
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2003
Factors influencing water allocation and entitlement prices in the Greater Goulburn area of Australia
Publisher: WIT Press
Date: 27-05-2008
DOI: 10.2495/SI080071
Ross Shanahan, and Martin Shanahan, eds. Australian Labour History Reconsidered
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/25149190
Measuring inequality trends in colonial australia using factor-price ratios: The importance of boundaries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Sectoral influence on competition legislation: evidence from the Cartel Registers, 1920-2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0007680518001058
Abstract: Legislation that required the registration of firms’ anticompetitive agreements (cartel registers) to reveal, and sometimes regulate, anticompetitive behavior was relatively common in many nations before 1975. Examining the introduction of these registers in sixteen mostly OECD countries between 1920 and 2000 reveals which industries and sectors appeared to minimize successfully the impact of the legislation in their jurisdiction. We find considerable variation, but in most countries, the agriculture and export sectors were especially successful in avoiding or delaying the application of a register in their areas of interest.
Operationalising a Threshold Concept in Economics: A Pilot Study Using Multiple Choice Questions on Opportunity Cost
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2006
To what extent are European development theories on industrialization valid from a world point of view?
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2019
A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2020
Who trades water allocations? Evidence of the characteristics of early adopters in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia 1998-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-10-2009
Australia's industrial development: the importance of importing capital and ideas
Publisher: CAIRN
Date: 2019
Sharing aquatic genetic resources across jurisdictions: playing ‘chicken’ in the sea
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-05-2018
Students' conceptions of research. 2: An exploration of contrasting patterns of variation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2007
Developing metalearning capacity in students: Actionable theory and practical lessons learned in first-year economics
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2004
Lessons from history: Insights from historical case studies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-06-2022
On variation in conceptions of 'price' in economics
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2002
A Student Learning Inventory for Economics Based on the Students' Experience of Learning: A Preliminary Study
Publisher: JSTOR
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/1183383
The economics degree in Australia: Down but not out?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-09-2010
Correspondence
Publisher: American Economic Association
Date: 11-2000
DOI: 10.1257/JEP.14.4.225
Cannabis Involvement and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: A Discordant Twin Approach
Publisher: Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc.
Date: 11-2016
DOI: 10.15288/JSAD.2016.77.873
Abstract: Cannabis use, particularly at an early age, has been linked to suicidal thoughts and behavior, but minimal work has examined the association between cannabis use and lifetime nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). The current study aims to characterize the overlap between lifetime and early cannabis use and NSSI and to examine genetic and environmental mechanisms of this association. Adult male and female twins from the Australian Twin Registry (N = 9,583) were used to examine the odds of NSSI associated with lifetime cannabis use and early cannabis use (i.e., <17 years of age). These associations were also examined within monozygotic (MZ) twins discordant for cannabis use and MZ twins discordant for early cannabis use. Analyses were replicated in an independent s le of female twins (n = 3,787) accounting for the age at onset of cannabis use and NSSI. Lifetime cannabis use (odds ratio [OR] = 2.84, 95% CI [2.23, 3.61]) and early cannabis use were associated with increased odds of NSSI (OR = 2.15, 95% CI [1.75, 2.65]), and this association remained when accounting for covariates. The association was only significant, however, in MZ twin pairs discordant for early cannabis use (OR = 3.20, 95% CI [1.17, 8.73]). Replication analyses accounting for the temporal ordering of cannabis use and NSSI yielded similar findings of nominal significance. Results suggest that NSSI is associated with cannabis involvement via differing mechanisms. For lifetime cannabis use, the lack of association in discordant pairs suggests the role of shared genes and family environment. However, in addition to such shared familial influences, person-specific and putatively causal factors contribute to the relationship between early cannabis use and NSSI. Therefore, delaying the onset of cannabis use may reduce exposure to influences that exacerbate vulnerabilities to NSSI.
Biodiversity, genetic resources and intellectual property: developments in access and benefit sharing
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-03-2018
Australasian economic history: Research challenges and big questions
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2007
Measuring and Responding to Variation in Aspects of Students' Economic Conceptions and Learning Engagement in Economics
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
Discipline identity in economic history: Reflecting on an interdisciplinary community
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-09-2015
Abstract: The article by Aileen Fyfe (this issue) raises a number of important issues about academic identity and the importance of the disciplinary community in the creation and maintenance of that identity. It also discusses some of the additional difficulties faced by interdisciplinary disciplines lack of recognition (and thus institutional support), isolation of in idual academics in ‘foreign’ communities and a general anxiety and lack of self-confidence by the practitioners in that discipline as to the worth of their field. Finally, the article hints at the dangers these difficulties pose for the sustainability of the discipline – as lack of a clear identity and an institutionally marginal existence can make developing and attracting future practitioners difficult. In Fyfe’s article, the focus was on the history of science. This article explores some of the many similarities, and differences, that exist for in iduals in the field of economic history. For many economic historians, locating themselves within their discipline is still a major issue.
Domesticating Water: How Initial Choices Shaped Water Networks in Three Australian Cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2021
Why pharmacist prescribing needs to be independent
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 13-02-2020
A patent defence approach to sharing aquaculture genetic resources across jurisdictional areas
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/JWIP.12082
Price elasticity of water allocations demand in the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-01-2008
Transforming Australian business attitudes to competition: Responses to the Trade Practices Act 1965
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-08-2014
Traceability Approaches for Marine Genetic Resources Under the Proposed Ocean (BBNJ) Treaty
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 27-04-2021
DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2021.661313
Abstract: Negotiations are underway for a new treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of bio ersity of areas beyond national jurisdiction under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Points of contention in the negotiation concern marine genetic resources and questions of monetary and/or non-monetary benefit sharing arising from their use. Tracing the origin of marine genetic resources used in scientific research, development and commercialization may offer the evidence needed to prove they came from areas beyond national jurisdiction and that benefit sharing is owed. Traceability is complex and multidisciplinary: involving legal, scientific and informatics considerations. We look at different traceability approaches within national jurisdictions and how these might provide lessons for the proposed treaty, using one of the few case studies available to trace the commercial development of a marine genetic resource from areas beyond national jurisdiction. We discuss this case study in relation to existing legal frameworks including the Nagoya Protocol and other systems based on open sharing of information and materials, including existing scientific practice. We conclude that a well-designed traceability system tailored to the unique geographical, political and jurisdictional characteristics of areas beyond national jurisdiction could lead to more equitable outcomes for the sharing of benefits from the use of marine genetic resources. Our key recommendations are that any traceability mechanism needs to be light touch, integrated with existing systems such as bioinformatics databases and not impose additional burdens on scientific users. Systems should be designed to improve scientific knowledge of ocean bio ersity to allow better conservation measures to be developed. If treaty negotiators engage commercial sectors to find workable policy solutions for the draft treaty that promote greater transparency and data sharing from these sectors, there may be a greater chance for traceability mechanisms to support benefit sharing.
The supply of economic history in Australasia: The Australian economic history review at 50
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2010
Shifts in government business relations: Assessing change using the restrictive business registers in the OECD, 1945-1995
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-08-2019
Southeast Asia and Australia/New Zealand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 2016
Temporal trends in smoking and nicotine dependence in relation to co-occurring substance use in the United States, 2005-2016.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
A systematic quantitative literature review of aquaculture genetic resource access and benefit sharing
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-08-2019
DOI: 10.1111/RAQ.12283
The voice of profit: exploring the tone of Australian CEO's letters to shareholders after the global financial crisis
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 05-08-2022
DOI: 10.1108/CCIJ-12-2020-0169
Abstract: This study examines the association between firm profitability and the “voice” of the CEO measured through tones they convey in their annual letter to shareholders. The paper examines whether the tones corresponds to a firm's profitability and the extent to which CEO tone varies with changes in profitability. The authors analyze 187 Australian CEOs communications in 748 annual letters to their shareholders between 2010 and 2013. Two-word lists created by previous researchers are used to assess tones for their positive-negative plurality, uncertainty and use of modal words. Firm profitability is identified using return on assets. The authors examine the relationship between profitability and tones using simple ANOVA as well as a linear mixed model and then a change (differences) model. The change model captures any inertia or genre effect in the CEO letter to shareholders. Using both the level and change model, the authors find that firm profitability is associated with CEO's tones that are more optimistic and less pessimistic. The authors also find that the use of negative words has more communicative value than positive words or “net” positive words. The authors also observe some genre effect when CEOs use strong modal words. The s le is restricted to a selection of Australian firms that had the same CEO for the fiscal years 2010–2013 which reported in each financial year and which survived the global financial crisis. Generalizing the findings to other periods, types of firms, or to CEOs with shorter tenure, might be questionable. This study was conducted in Australia, which may limit the applicability of the findings to other jurisdictions. The significant link between firm profitability and CEOs' use of positive, net positive and negative words implies that investors may place reliance on the use of these tones in the CEO's annual letter to accurately reflect the profitability of the firm. The study extends the existing literature by examining whether a change in firm profitability is linked to a change in CEO tone. It concludes that even in periods of general financial stress, shareholders should be confident that CEOs' letters to shareholders provide credible information that corresponds to firm performance.
On academic debate: a comment on the discussions between Leonhardt, Roelevink and Berghahn
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Date: 04-09-2017
Wealth and welfare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 08-10-2014
Australian Labour History Reconsidered
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Date: 2001
DOI: 10.2307/27516783
Threshold concepts in economics
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 13-06-2016
Abstract: – The purpose of this paper is to examine threshold concepts in the context of teaching and learning first-year university economics. It outlines some of the arguments for using threshold concepts and provides ex les using opportunity cost as an exemplar in economics. – The paper provides an overview of the theoretical literature around threshold concepts in economics and provides exemplars from previous research, and current practice, to illustrate how they might be applied in economics. – The notion of threshold concepts such as opportunity cost can be extremely useful in pedagogic design. They focus on how learning concepts changes student thinking, rather than the standard approach which treats many concepts as equal in importance. Designing appropriate instructional materials around threshold concepts is time consuming and this may prove a barrier to the notions widespread adoption. – This paper contributes to the literature discussing the practical application of threshold concepts in teaching first-year economics as well as identifying possible reasons for its relatively slow adoption as a teaching tool in university.
Dissonant forms of 'memorising' and 'repetition'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2003
Uncrewed autonomous marine vessels test the limits of maritime safety frameworks
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-12-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S13437-022-00295-X
Abstract: Uncrewed and autonomous marine vessels (UMVs) challenge the underlying paradigm of maritime laws and regulations. Yet UMVs are considered essential for safer, more efficient, and more effective maritime futures. There is a fundamental challenge facing industry and regulators about how to develop and support the nascent UMV industry while maintaining the safety and risk management principles and processes in legacy laws and regulations predicated on the conventional crewed vessel. This paper, drawing upon case studies of developer and operator experiences with Australia’s maritime safety framework, argues for an “intent-based”, flexible, and collaborative approach based on developers’ and operators’ experiences. The case studies show that ad hoc and bespoke regulatory pathways, utilising exemptions and discretions under Australian national laws, although problematic in terms of regulatory consistency and capacity to deal with scale, did allow for the trialling and deployment of two small UMVs. More importantly, the ad hoc approach facilitated information exchange between industry and regulators that is generating reforms and changes at the national level. Although focused on Australia, the findings are significant for maritime futures. It reveals a dialectical approach whereby maritime nations pragmatically work through the risks, standards, and processes that balance safety with facilitating local UMV industries, and in turn, this creates a body of knowledge to inform international reform processes. It also shows the importance of documenting and reflecting on the regulatory journeys of UMV pioneers as essential for safer, more efficient, and effective maritime industries that leverage the potential benefits of automation.
Sustainable management and improvement of genetic resources for aquaculture
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2023
DOI: 10.1111/JWAS.12968
Abstract: Effective genetic management of the ~700 aquatic species cultured globally should be addressed for aquaculture to make a significant contribution towards meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. This article aims to identify the current status and challenges relating to the management of farmed aquatic genetic resources (AqGR) and to make recommendations for its improvement. The lack of information on the genetic status of many farmed species is a critical constraint and there is a need to characterize these resources and develop information systems and tools to monitor farmed types used for aquaculture and their wild counterparts. Risk assessment is needed when introducing non‐native species and when managing native species including developed farmed types policies need to be improved and increased awareness and training in risk assessment are required. To increase the uptake of selective breeding in aquaculture, there is a need for the development and adoption of better and more sustainable business models, including long‐term financial instruments such as public–private partnerships. Training and technology transfer between aquaculture sectors can have significant impact, especially for lower‐value species. Nationally and globally applicable instruments and regulations need to be adapted to AqGR and become operational and be effectively implemented by countries.
David Palmer, Ross Shanahan, and Martin Shanahan, eds., Australian Labor History Reconsidered. Adelaide: Australian Humanities Press, 1999. ix + 244 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 10-2002
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547901214537
Abstract: An objective of this collection is to bring the history of the Australian labor movement to international attention. The editors introduce the collection with a brief overview of Australian labor history, emphasizing differences between the Australian and American experiences. The introduction argues that a unique aspect of Australian labor history is “laborism,” which is defined as the central place of the labor movement in Australian culture, as compared with the more marginal position of the labor movement in America. In Australia, this centrality is reflected in the embedding of trade unions and labor in the state through wage-fixing tribunals, a social security system designed to support the families of male wage earners, and the Australian Labor Party's strong links to the trade union movement. The introduction is informative and especially benefits from the insights of David Palmer, an American historian teaching at Adelaide's Flinders University. However, the introduction was apparently written later at the suggestion of an American reader and has thus not been fully integrated into the structure of the book.
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